Tuesday 10 November 2009

Language, first words?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/221357

5 comments:

  1. This article is ridiculous and interesting at the same time! Only the fact that they really analyzing the crying of a baby is bloody stupid! Who does really care about the answer? I can't really get the meaning of this experiment. Can anybody maybe explain it to me?
    Besides it is amazing that they found something! It is really hard to believe that they can actually analyze a baby crying and compare it to a SPOKEN language!

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  2. ERRMMM...What is the point of this article and the reseach in whole?? Yes,baybe it is true about baby crying and their spoken language,but I can't see the general aim of this workings,what's the benefit from that?? It's just stupid waste of the time and the energy...

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  3. I think this article is interesting, but very obviously. We know that a baby is born with the ability to learn one language, and we know that a person is more open for new information, the younger the person is. Off course, baby cries in a certain way according to their mother language? It's the first thing they hear when they are born (when their hard disk is almost empty for information)
    Another thing is that we know, that the human is a pack-animal, and every human tries to copy everything our pack do, this can also be seen on a little bit older kids. so why not with newborn babies?

    But maybe sound is just an imaginary thing in our mind?, and we hear it like we wanna hear it? or like somebody ells would hear it?

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  4. That is another experiment for wasting time, doing something instead of nothing.
    In my opinion it is not really important to analyse the cry from a baby but perhaps they can find some other things which will happen to the baby, depend how they are crying

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  5. It's quite obvious that babies cry is different depending on their mother's language due to the propensity to develope it that causes a biological adaptation of the vocal cords...

    Also their moms speak their languages and the babies have to 'listen' to them for nine months, thus it's acceptable to think that they will learn such language easily.

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